Books that smell like Miami

Marisol Figueredo

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On the nightstand next to the auction catalogs I shouldn't have bid on — these are the ones I keep pressing on friends at openings. Half of them are set three blocks from the gallery, mi amor, the other half just get the light right — that particular bruised-gold hour before a storm rolls off the Bay. Read in order or don't, pero start with the Didion if you want your heart broken properly.

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Books that smell like Miami — 5 items
Name	Comment	Title	Author	Genre
1Miami	Cold, precise, a little cruel — she sees the Cuban exile city clearer than most who were born into it. Read it on the porch at dusk.	Miami	Joan Didion	Nonfiction / political journalism
2Continental Drift	The Little Haiti chapters wrecked me the first time, wrecked me again the second — he's not Haitian and you feel the seams, pero the ache is real.	Continental Drift	Russell Banks	Literary fiction
3Miami Blues	Grimy fluorescent-lit noir, Hoke Moseley with his dentures in a glass — not pretty light, but it's honest Miami light.	Miami Blues	Charles Willeford	Crime fiction
4Black Miami in the Twentieth Century	Required reading before you say you understand this city, full stop. No glossy light here, just the truth of it.	Black Miami in the Twentieth Century	Marvin Dunn	History
5Cuba Confidential	Dense but delicious if you want to understand why certain dinner parties in Coral Gables still go quiet at the mention of Havana.	Cuba Confidential	Ann Louise Bardach	Nonfiction / politics